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07/16/11 Sparta's Town and Country Days festival is underway. This is the fifth ... President Barack Obama has invited the Dalai Lama to the White House Saturday, ...
07/16/11 In a project affecting motor-vehicle and recreational traffic alike, construction crews will begin work next week replacing a bridge on Holmes Street that dates back to the days when Calvin Coolidge occupied the White House.
07/15/11 Is there a health insurance horror story disseminated by the White House and its allies that ever turned out to be true? Obamacare advocates have exercised more artistic license than a convention of Photoshoppers. Now, a prominent sob story shilled by President Obama himself about his own mother is in doubt. It's high past time to call their bluffs.
07/15/11 Budget deficit heads for $1TThe federal budget deficit is on pace to break the $1 trillion mark for the third straight year, ratcheting up the pressure on the White House and Congress to reach a deal to rein in spending.The deficit totaled $971 billion
07/15/11 Frank Newport, Ph.D., is Gallup's Editor in Chief. He is coauthor of Winning the White House 2008: The Gallup Poll, Public Opinion and the Presidency and author of Polling Matters: Why Leaders Must Listen to the Wisdom of the People . He is coauthor with Stuart Rothenberg of The Evangelical Voter and coeditor of The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion 2004-2009 . His articles and op-ed pieces have ...
07/15/11 Some prominent Republicans are worried that the tempestuous talks between congressional leaders and the White House over raising the debt ceiling could strip the GOP of some of its hard-won luster.
07/15/11 BEIJING (AP) - China has called on the U.S. to withdraw an invitation for the Dalai Lama to meet with President Barack Obama at the White House, saying it could hurt relations between the two countries.
07/15/11 President Obama wants Congress to decide on plan to raise the debt ceiling. Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images. The weeklong series of White House meetings with President Obama and bipartisan congressional leaders has apparently produced one concrete result: There will be no meeting Friday. In fact, no further White House negotiating sessions are on the schedule. Instead of another fruitless ...
07/15/11 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. With a military honor guard carrying her casket, Betty Ford returned Thursday to the church where she and her husband got married more than 60 years ago, a wedding that launched the unassuming Michigan couple on an unexpected path to the White House.
07/15/11 Estero resident Dell Jones and Charlotte County resident Jason Stolzfus will be honored at the White House as "Champions of Change" Tuesday for their...
07/15/11 WASHINGTON -- Childish pandemonium has erupted in the capital. Anger and frustration boiled over yesterday over stalled White House talks to raise the nation's $14.3 trillion debt limit, with no deal in sight and time running out before an Aug. 2 deadline when the United States faces a...
07/15/11 President Barack Obama opposes a unilateral declaration of Palestinian state. He stated this at the White House at a joint press conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
07/15/11 President Barack Obama Wednesday declared a major disaster exists in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and ordered federal aid to supplement commonwealth and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms and flooding during the period of April 25-28, 2011, according to a press release issued by the White House.
07/14/11 Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: The debt ceiling deadlock in Washington led to increasingly urgent appeals for action today. But, even as talks resumed, White House officials warned not to expect a hallelujah moment. Fresh alarms sounded on Wall Street and around the world today about the consequences of a potential U.S. government default. Standard & Poor's joined Moody's in warning the ...
07/14/11 Dominic Mori, sponsored by the Tigard American Legion Post 158, will visit many historical sites in Washington, D.C., including a trip to the White House and a meeting with the President Obama as a delegate to Boys Nation.
07/14/11 None of it was a promising prelude to negotiations scheduled to resume at the White House on Thursday afternoon, less than three weeks before an Aug. 2 deadline for increasing the government's borrowing authority.
07/14/11 News: Part Two of a series marking the 15th anniversary of the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act ''Given your stated and longstanding opposition to gay marriage, we believe there would not be a substantive basis for you not to sign the proposed legislation if it were to be adopted by Congress,'' White House counsel Jack Quinn, senior advisor to the president George Stephanopoulos and White ...
07/14/11 At the heart of the contentious talks between the White House and congressional Republicans on whether to raise the debt ceiling is a simple, one-sentence document many conservative lawmakers have signed, pledging not to increase taxes.
07/14/11 Republican presidential candidates Herman Cain and Tim Pawlenty are the latest from a list of White House hopefuls who have responded to a request by a conservative Iowa group to sign its Marriage Vow Pledge. Both men have politely refused.
07/14/11 WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama clashed with Republican lawmakers yesterday in a fierce White House meeting on deficit reduction that left a deal in question as the clock ticked toward a debt default.
07/14/11 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Betty Ford returned Thursday to the church where she and her husband got married more than 60 years ago, a wedding that launched the unassuming Michigan couple on an unexpected path to the White House. | 
